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The Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC is a European Union law Directive and a key part of European labour law. It gives EU workers the right to: at least 28 days (four weeks) in paid holidays each year; rest breaks of 20 minutes in a 6-hour period; daily rest of at least 11 hours in any 24 hours; restricts excessive night work;
Working Time Directive Commission v United Kingdom (2006) C-484/04 is a European labour law and UK labour law case concerning the Working Time Directive , which is relevant for the Working Time Regulations 1998 .
The Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) is a statutory instrument in UK labour law which implemented the EU Working Time Directive 2003. [1] It was updated in 1999, but these amendments were then withdrawn in 2006 [2] following a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice. [3] It does not extend to Northern Ireland.
However, the scope of the protected worker is left to member state law, and the TAWD 2008 only applies to "basic working conditions" (mostly pay, working hours and participation rights) and enabled member states to have a qualifying period. Part-time Workers Directive 97/81/EC; Fixed-term Work Directive 99/70/EC
The European Court of Justice ruled that all time Dr. Jaeger was mandated to be at the hospital, including when sleeping, should be classified as working time. The court noted that after the SIMAP case, [2] the Directive could not be interpreted to treat inactive on-call time as a rest period. The court also found that Dr. Jaeger was subjected ...
In the United States, they are known as hours of service. Within the European Union, Directive 2002/15/EC [1] is setting the rules regarding working time for drivers carrying out road transport activities in the European Union from the point of view of improving road safety, health and safety of drivers and ensure fair competition among ...
A payment under the Working Time Regulations 1998 regulation 14 was a sum payable to a worker in connection with employment, clearly within ERA 1996 s 27(1) and ‘holiday pay’ was there specifically. If it were not so, the principle of equivalence - that a no less favourable remedy would be available in national law as for EU law - would be ...
The European Court of Justice said the Directive's purpose from recitals 1, 4, 7 and 8 and Art 1(1) is ‘to improve the living and working conditions of workers’. Recital 4 refers to the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers point 8 and 19(1) that everyone should have satisfactory health and safety at work. It is ...